AFTER CRISIS Contemporary Architectural Conditions

Description

Architectural Papers V, Edited by the Chair of Josep Lluís Mateo, Departement of Architecture, ETH Zurich and Krunoslav Ivanisin

Architectural Papers series is edited by the Josep Lluís Mateo Chair at the ETH Zurich since 2005. Covering the wide range of topics related to teaching and architectural culture in general, it is aimed at expanding the narrow boundaries of the discipline. Its fifth issue concentrates around the new conditions for architectural practice and around the new epistemologies that may inform it in the next future. That is, in the period after the financial bubble has collapsed and living and working conditions have significantly changed. Essays, studies and interviews, along with a selection of indicative projects, tackle the actual issues of growth and shrinking, economy and ideology, craftsmanship and social space in the city, materiality and sustainability in architecture. In a logical sequence, they depict the current reality of architecture. 

CONTENTS

AFTER (Josep Lluís Mateo)
ON THE FORM OF THE FINANCIAL BUBBLE

• 12 Interrupted Spain (Isabel Concheiro)
• 26 How Can One Build A Mountain … (Krunoslav Ivanišin)
• 28 GRADE ZERO (Hans Ibelings)
• 34 Framing Dubai (Josep Lluís Mateo)
• 36 Can Dubai Survive? (Tariq Ali)
• 36 Stresstest (Rem Koolhaas)

NEW EPISTEMOLOGIES

• 40 Found Book (Ramias Steinemann)
• 42 Craftsmanship (Richard Sennett)

LE BON SAUVAGE

• 50 Wang Shu
• 60 Solano Benitez
• 68 Alexander Brodsky

ÜBUNGEN (Josep Lluís Mateo)
ONE – SPACE AND USE

• 84 Concepts—Paradigms—Conditions(Krunoslav Ivanišin)
• 90 Office
• 94 Architectural Parallax (Slavoj Žižek)

TWO – MATERIAL

• 104 Stone Architecture (Antón García-Abril)
• 110 Factory

THREE – ENERGY

• 124 On the Form of Energy (Julio Martínez Calzón)
• 136 Eco Valley
• 140 Sustainable Urban Design (Jan Carmeliet)
• 146 Eco Urbanism (Peter Moonen, Andreas Rubin)
• 148 Thermodynamic Beauty (Iñaki Ábalos)

With contributions by Iñaki Ábalos, Solano Benitez, Alexander Brodsky, Isabel Concheiro, Frederick Cooper Llosa, Hans Ibelings, Krunoslav Ivanisin, Julio Martinez Calzon, Josep Lluís Mateo, Richard Sennett, Wang Shu and Ramias Steinemann

160 pages, approx. 200 illustrations / 16,5 x 22 cm / English